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A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

A major milestone for the Brick Chapel – a landmark of faith that symbolizes Maryland’s status as a birthplace of religious ...

Kumudini Lakhia entered the world at a time when women in the performing arts were bound by unspoken rules and visible walls. But she was destined to move differently ...

Easter has always been one of my favorite holidays. Anyone who knows me or has read my occasional columns will know that I am ...

Pride so loud it fills the frame, ten characters who walk in certain the world can hear their ego shout out anime chants.

Although its name means “land beyond the forest,” this historical province of more than seven million souls was not known ... as places of worship: massive stone towers with battlements ...

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War remains a defining rupture in American history. Not only in terms of ...

I don’t usually send out the ideas of others. But this is an exception. The modest man who wrote it in Hebrew (my translation ...

Its bones were found beneath a stone floor, which helped protect them for centuries ... This idea comes from the writings of the ancient Roman scholar Varro. “For the building sacrifice of Velzeke, it ...